Build a Sudoku Puzzle Game Generator and Solver for PocketPC
Not only can you generate your own Sudoku puzzles with this mobile application, but you can solve them, too—even puzzles you enter from newspapers or books.
by Tade Oyebode
February 28, 2006
he Sudoku game is the latest craze in the UK, and it's become so popular that every major newspaper now publishes puzzles with varying difficulty levels. I've found the process of solving Sudoku puzzles fascinating ever since I first saw one in the London Evening Standard newspaper. But after solving a few, I decided it would be even more interesting to write an application capable of both generating and solving Sudoku puzzles. In this article you'll see how to use Windows Mobile 5.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to create such an application.
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he Sudoku game is the latest craze in the UK, and it's become so popular that every major newspaper now publishes puzzles with varying difficulty levels. I've found the process of solving Sudoku puzzles fascinating ever since I first saw one in the London Evening Standard newspaper. But after solving a few, I decided it would be even more interesting to write an application capable of both generating and solving Sudoku puzzles. In this article you'll see how to use Windows Mobile 5.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to create such an application.
